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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Symposium by Xenophon: at any rate, the strange effects now wrought on Callias by love. He
was like one transformed, the cynosure of all initiated in the
mysteries of this divinity.[24]
[23] Cf. Plat. "Rep." iii. 403 A: "Whereas true love is a love of
beauty and order, temperate and harmonious."
[24] Cf. "Econ." xxi. 12.
So they supped in silence, the whole company, as if an injunction had
been laid upon them by some superior power. But presently there came a
knocking on the door! Philippus the jester bade the doorkeeper[25]
announce him, with apologies for seeking a night's lodging:[26] he had
come, he said, provided with all necessaries for dining, at a friend's
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